Happy Sunday Sterlingcoiners,

We're happy to inform, good progress has been made on the source code in preparation for Sterlingcoin v1.7! Progress such as OpenSSL 1.1, miniupnpc 1.9, and boost 1.66 & 1.7 compatibility, to name a few. This work is being done in a public repo, https://github.com/Sterlingcoin/Sterlingcoin-1.7-WIP/ and a big thanks to gjhiggins for helping get it this far.

Most of the "maintenance" work and dependency-compatibility-updating to the code is done. Focus is now shifting to the front-end GUI, to give SLG v1.7 a fresh look. Please allow a week or 2 for that, then we will build and release for Windows and Mac.

To be clear, this is not the previously discussed new code base (aka "SLG 2.0") that we were planning to swap into. While those plans are not scraped, slow progress towards those goals deemed a new release of the existing code necessary. Version 1.7 will not be a required upgrade, though strongly advised, and will not need swapping into. Version 1.7 will, and does as of now, solve several incompatibilities preventing building on many "modern and mainstream" operating systems, such as Ubuntu, "out-of-the-box" and without downgrading dependencies. This is a good step forward for Sterlingcoin and v1.7 will better bridge the gap to v2.0, whenever we do cross that bridge.

Thanks for the continued support, Sterlingcoiners. Have a good and safe week!